MANTIDiE. 
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development, mimicry in those species that inhabit sands and deserts, prin- 
ciples of classification, &c. The new species are : — 
Thespu vicina, Colombia. 
JEjmphrodita dentifrons, Antilles. 
The * Memoires pour servir a I'Histoire Naturelle do Mexique,' &c., t. ii. 
1^^ partie, are entirely occupied by a synopsis of American Mantidce, form- 
ing, as the author remarks, a complement to the 3rd fascicule of his ' Me- 
langes,' from which the American species were excluded owing to the 
* Mission ' being then in the press. The following are the new genera and 
species : — 
Orthoderiens. 
Chcetessa caudalUf p. 11, hrunneriana, p. 14, Brazil. 
Mantiens. 
Angela miranda, p. 60, Mexico. 
Macromantis, g. n., p. 77, formed to receive 3Iantis omUfolia^ Stoll, and 
M, hyalina, De Geer. 
Miopteryx hrunneri, p. 113, New Friburg, 
Oligonyx hnmneri, p. 119, Porto Cabello. 
Harpagiens. 
Acanthops hrunneri, p. 144, Surinam, 
Empusiens. 
Votes pecUnata, p. 163, fig. 34, Mexico ? ; paraensis, p. 168, Para, 
The greater part of the recent additions to the fauna were diagnosed by 
the author in the MT. schw. ent. Ges. iii. (cf. Zool. Rec. vii. p. 456), and 
are here described in detail. 
In the ' Melanges Orthopterologiques,' fasc. iv., the author revises all his 
previous works, with many changes in nomenclature (see p. 90), and with 
again numerous additions to the species previously known ; these are : — 
Orthoderiens. 
Eremiaphila numtda, p. 6, Algeria, 
Orthodera marginata, p. 8, tig. 1, Swan River. 
Chiropacha meridionalis, p. 10, fig. 19, and lenticidaris, p. 11, fig. IS, Natal. 
Oxyophthalma collaris, p. 14, fig. 17, Senaar. 
Humbertiella ocularis, p. 16, Borneo. 
Mantiens. 
Acontista hrevipennis, p. 21, fig. 20, and major, p. 22, Brazil. 
Pseudomantis kraussiana, p. 25, fig. 3, New Holland. 
Archimantis sohrina, p. 26, Swan River. 
Euchomena moluccarum, p. 27, fig. 5, Moluccas. 
Gonypeta {Iridopteryx) infumata, p. 30, Egypt ? 
Mantis viridis, p. 47, Natal. 
Ameles gracilipes, p. 60, Cape ? ; alata, p. 51, Turkestan, 
Liturgousa surinamensis, p. 53, Surinam. 
Iris rogenhoferi, p. 55, fig. 9, Natal. 
Atigela fulgida, p. 61, Cayenne. 
Oxythespis turcomanicB, p. 61, Turkestan. 
Parathespis anomala, p. 64, fig. 18, Cape. 
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